Re: [eclipsefp-develop] Some questions

[Leif F. <hi...@le...>]

Hi Andrei,

>    As I may have some extra free time after I complete
> a project at work (2 weeks left), I was thinking about
> trying my hand at an OCaml plugin. The idea was to see
> how you've done with the haskell support and try
> similar things for OCaml.
>
>    Now, I don't know if I will ever have anything
> ready. But, if I do and I intend to release the code,
> do you think it's better to have this in a separate
> project ?
You are of course most welcome if you would put it into the eclipsefp
project :-) In fact, I had from the very start an idea of having some common
basis (language-neutral, providing infrastructure) and building not only
Haskell support, but also support for other languages on top of it. (That's
why I called it 'eclipsefp' intentionally, leaving the possibility to extend
it to more functional languages.)

Also, the whole architecture is based on this split between
language-neutral and language-specific. Using the common.* plugins it should
be possible to get some things (like e.g. the New Project wizards)
implemented relatively painless. I intend to make more of the stuff in the
Haskell plugins more general and put it into the common plugins (e.g. the
compiler support). You could just play around with that and have the OCaml
support built on top of them (any feedback about how this works out would be
appreciated :-).

Ciao,
Leif